Insights and Stories on General

May. 21, 2010 at 3:43 pm CDT

The main creditor of beleaguered Canadian organic supermarket chain Planet Organic Health has signed a deal to take over all the retailer’s assets. Under the agreement, subject to approval from Ontario’s Superior Court and the TSX Venture Echange, Toronto-based Catalyst Capital Group would acquire all of the Edmonton company’s assets […]

May. 19, 2010 at 10:00 am CDT

The federal government is touting a recent funding announcement as a key to expanding markets for Western Canadian food processors in Asia Pacific countries. The feds, through the Western Economic Diversification fund, are providing close to $1 million in funding to “help increase the availability of Western Canadian value-added food […]

May. 18, 2010 at 3:26 pm CDT

One of Canada’s highest-profile farm leaders is leaving his post for a new job overseeing Canada’s supply-managed egg and poultry systems. Laurent Pellerin, president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) and former president of Quebec’s Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA), has accepted a four-year term as chairperson of the […]

May. 12, 2010 at 12:37 pm CDT

Grocery chain Sobeys plans to aim from a different angle against other players in the discount market, starting in southern Ontario, launching a new group of stores with a focus on the locally grown. The Nova Scotia company, which operates over 1,300 stores across Canada under banners including Sobeys, IGA, […]

May. 11, 2010 at 12:53 pm CDT

A U.S. firm billing itself as that country’s leading distributor of organic and natural foods will buy Canada’s biggest distributor of organic, natural, kosher and specialty foods. Toronto food firm SunOpta Inc. said Tuesday it will sell its SunOpta Distribution Group (SDG) assets to United Natural Foods (UNFI) for C$68 […]